Justin Heazlewood

Bernie of the 90s, which is essentially where I either live or I certainly lived for several years in the Bernie of my memories.

It's funny, the postscript of all that is going back to Bernie in the real time, which is, you know, it's way more home and away-ified.

The sea's blue again.

The factories have gone away.

There's nice blue poles and canopies down at the beach.

It's like Bernie kind of started trying in the 2000s and it was sort of interested in the concept of a tourist wanting to come or find it nice.

I mean, you've got that and you've also got the world's biggest pile of wood chips everywhere.

like this bizarre Egyptian pyramids meets wet cheese sort of vibes.

So burnings still was an industrial piece of work.

It always was.

Oh, I just really loved the show Rosehaven and I was like, I'd like my life to become a quirky, dark ABC comedy.

And I was just really bored and running out of material.

So I thought, oh, just a big fan of Mother and Son by Geoffrey Atherton as well.

Now, it's good, isn't it?

You just witnessed like the Justin Hazelwood comedian defence.

Well honed, a well honed Tai Chi move.

It's like on Starship Enterprise when the ship's in danger, all these automatic defence systems will come into place.

Like you just saw my comedy equivalent of that.

I was just like, start doing gags because it's like, it's so hardwired in me to be funny.

I just...